How to Age
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THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE. Society has a deep fear of ageing, and showing your age is increasingly one of our most pervasive taboos. Old age in modern life is widely viewed as either a time of inevitable decline or something to be resisted, denied or overcome. In How to Age, sociologist and award-winning journalist Anne Karpf urges us to radically change our narrative. Exploring how our outlook on ageing is historically determined and culturally defined, Karpf draws upon revealing case studies to suggest how ageing can be an actively enriching time of immense growth. She argues that if we can recognize growing older as an inevitable part of the human condition, then the great challenge of ageing turns out to be none other than the challenge of living. In How to Age, learn how ageing isn't about your wardrobe or physical fitness, but a determination to live fully at every age and stage of life.
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The School of Life is a 15-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2012 with contributions by Roman Krznaric, The School of Life, and Alain de Botton.
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Je me suis senti un peu ridicule à lire ce livre à l'approche de ma trentaine, et pourtant je dois admettre qu'une certaine peur de vieillir s'installe (accentuée par ma démographie forcément). Ce petit livre est venu me rassurer doucement sur beaucoup de points. Certes on ne calme pas une anxiété en quelques pages, mais l'on peut apercevoir certaines pistes et commencer à se rassurer, et finalement parfois c'est tout ce qu'on a besoin, une main tendue qui nous emmène doucement vers le chemin qui s'annonce devant nous. Et pouvoir se dire que beaucoup de choses nous attendent encore et qu'avoir peur de vieillir n'a au final aucun fondement réel si ce n'est l'image que la société veut forcer en nous, alors que ce n'est qu'un long voyage où l'on ne cesse au final de grandir. Et que l'on aura toujours éternellement 18 ans. Et 25. Et 27. Et 29...
“If we're able to give ourselves the permission to grow older but at the same time resist the myths about ageing, then the gift we receive in return is invaluable: the ability to position ourselves in a whole lifespan, and see the integrity of a human life, however short or long it might be.”